Can you give me any information about Surrealism?

Question

Thank you.

Answer 1

Salvador Dali is my favorite artist, and I think between him and Picasso, they have almost defined Surrealism.

Answer 2

Surrealism is an artistic movement and philosophy that first gained popularity in the 1920s. Initially, surrealism was an offshoot of Dadaism, which posited that traditional art should be replaced with anything "anti-art" and triumphed the ridiculous, the absurd, and a basic disregard for form. Andre Breton was the initial proponent of surrealism in literature and the visual arts. Much of his emphasis was on accessing the unconscious, as viewed by Freud. Surrealism was a reaction to the philosophy of rationalism, which many felt had caused, through the Industrial Revolution, the disaster of World War I.


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Answer 3

I think Picasso is NOT a surrealist, he is a cubist. Dali is, as are Matisse and Chagall, even some works by Kandinsky in painting. In literature you can look at works by Andre Breton, Jacques Prevert. In music, Erik Satie. In sculpture and painting, Joan Miro and in architecture, Gaudi (Barcelona).
Of course this is not an exhaustive list, but those will give you a good understanding (or feeling) of what surrealism meant as an artistic movement.

Answer 4

Surrealism: - mind's eye is extra functional than rationality (rationality leads to violence, as evidenced with the aid of warfare) - objectives have a deep impact on waking existence - getting access to our inner psyches can help us sparkling up existence's complications Pop paintings: - reaction adversarial to precis Expressionism - Mass custom change into the numerous thought for Pop paintings - Irony and parody were in many situations used to spotlight the usually ridiculous nature of mass custom

Answer 5

I already have



How surreal is that!

Answer 6

Yes. Banana.

Answer 7

Only what my fish told me after we'd climbed the tree to look for our parents

Answer 8

It's weird